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News & Report, Redbook, McCall's Patterns, and others.Also included in this heritage are inventors of specialty The area of downtown Dayton where the Graphic Arts Building stands was the center of the printing product. On Ludlow Street, between the corners of West Fifth and Sixth Street, near the location of the Graphic Arts Building was one of the busiest blocks in the city in the printing industry. In the block between Printing, Dayton Blank Book, and Pflaum Publishing Company, which was a major producer of Catholic books and magazines. The Otterbein Press of the United Brethren Publishing Co., later Dayton Press, was two train depot, so ithad easy and direct access to an adjacent system of rail transported commerce at the turn of the century.
Today on the west side of Ludlow Street, one block south of West Fifth Street, at the corner of old Court Criteria A:Dayton and Its Publishing and Printing Heritage Jefferson Street to the east. The district was generally centered about one or two blocks at most from the city's Wilkie's, was started in a store near West Fifth and Ludlow Streets at the turn of the 2oth century. Section number 8 Page 1 Historic Places under Criterion A, for its association with, and development of, Dayton's printing and publishing The building qualifies under Criterion A, for its association and development of Dayton's publishing and publishing industry. The vicinity of downtown near South Ludlow Street and West Fifth Street was the West Fifth and Sixth Streets were other printing industry related companies such as Dayton Typo, Drury blocks away at East Fifth and Jefferson Streets.
Several of these buildings are still standing. Many publishing houses found Dayton's widened street infrastructure, proximity to water canals and bounded by West Fifth Street to the north, and Wilkinson Street to the west; Sixth Street to the south, and flood of 1913 and expansion of the religious press. Beyond this, the Graphic Arts Building as the new headquarters of the Christian Publishing Association was a turn of the century forward looking model of printing items, printing papers, and industry technology creators. The oldest bookstore in downtown Dayton, industry, specifically the expansion of the Christian Publishing Association.During the late 19th and early 20th NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number & Page 2 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio Dayton's determination to rebuild with the permanence afforded by the newer concrete technologies. The downtown Dayton. and western parts of the city. Subsequent fires in the downtown area did even more damage. Local business leaders, specifically John H. Patterson and National Cash Register, took the lead in was an indicator of past growth as well as confidence in the city's economic future.
the edge of the central downtown and near the city's rail lines, rapidly developed during this period and Dayton has had many printers operating in the city, both religious and secular in nature; the Christian Association printed and published there until 1936, when a major denominational reorganization altered its designed and constructed for the housing of the religious publishing affiliate, the Christian Publishing Association, and other mission-based aspects of the non-denominational religious body known as the Christian Church, including the General Convention of the Christian Church and their department of Evangelism and Life became a center for the city's publishing industry. Publishing Association's legacy of accomplishmentsas an organization adds to the significance of this industry in Dayton's history.
The Graphic Arts Building was constructed in 1924 and the Christian Publishing Midwest. The downpour lasted for two days. Dayton, located at the confluence of three rivers, was especially of downtown Dayton moved ahead. Modern, fireproof commercial structures replaced those that had been Behind the new protective levees, Dayton's central business district expanded and improved as progressive spirit. It had successfully transformed its manufacturing base from production of agricultural implements and lumber products to industries based on the latest technological advances - fare registers for management systems that included such innovations as free vocational training for workers and company providing relief for families and businesses that had suffered flood damage.
Following the flood, these leaders created the Miami Conservancy District to prevent future flooding and promoted progressive commission- and scores of other manufacturing interests including publishing. The area along Fifth and Ludlow streets, at course, and all printing formally produced in Dayton was relocated. This historically significant structure was NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio Corporation until 1987. The Christian Publishing Association was founded in 1843, as the Ohio Christian Book Association.
The Association was incorporated in 1854 following a name change in 1852 to the Western Christian Book shared the facilities of the United Brethren Publishing, the first denominational press started in Dayton just a Hampshire. In 1868, the Christian Publishing Association purchased property at the southeast corner of Sixth and Main streets with plans to build their first headquarters building which was constructed from 1871-1872 operated out of several rented locations. At the turn of the 20t century, the Christian Publishing Association mirrored the Church Convention Association's mission statement was stated thusly: "The Christian Publishing Association avers that it is a promoting the union of Christians and the conversion of the world by the publication of books, tracts, papers, periodicals, hymnals, and books, and efforts were continuously focused on this goal.
land on the southeast corner of Fifth and Ludlow streets and erected its new headquarters building there. That building at 204 Ludlow housed the CPA operations from 1905 until it was sold in 1924 to one of its street level tenants, Charles Wilson Hamiel, proprietor of the Hamiel Hat Company. The Christian Publishing Association then purchased property to build a modern printing facility more April 22,1925. The new headquarters building was designed by the prominent architectural firm of Schenk and Williams.The building's fireproof design with concrete structure was also designed to carry heavy loads for and occupied on January 2,1873. This building housed the emerging organization as it consolidated Section number 8 Page 3 been used continuously in printing and publishing operations by a successor organization, The Printing Arts organization was reincorporated in 1866.
For the first several years after the move to Dayton, the Association By 1904, the Christian Publishing Association's financial condition had improved. Among its publications were: Herald of Gospel Liberty, The Christian Missionary, The Sunday School Herald, and Sunday School Teachers and Officers Journal and the publication of religious books. The CPA purchased constructed there as the Christian Publishing Association's new headquarters. The building was dedicated on Association. The first meeting of the executive committee for the association in Dayton was held in 1865. little over a decade earlier.
Coinciding with its move to Dayton the Christian Publishing Association began printing the Herald of Gospel Liberty, the oldest religious newspaper in the world having begun in 1808 in New religious society duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio, not for profit, but for the purpose of Board of the Publishing Association endeavored to secure a wider and larger circulation for all of the Church's adequate to the organization's expanding needs on the west side of Ludlow Street, almost directly across the street from their previous location, from Mary Pryor Ridgway in 1924. The Graphic Arts Building was printing presses. The building also featured large expanses of windows across the east, south and west elevations in order to take advantage of generous amounts of natural daylight.The building was NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number & Page 4 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio example of the architectural firm's smaller commercial work. The new structure was known in the industry as the "Graphic Arts Building", to distinguish it from the offices and production areas for several printing and publishing firms. These included the Christian Publishing Dayton Terra Cotta Historic District. propagated itself with its flagship publication which was the most unique published product within the United States. The publication was known as the 'Herald of Gospel Liberty'.
This was the first intentionally religious re-association of member "Trustees" from multiple affiliated church conferences, whose mission was to service occurred among members of various Christian faiths split by social issues (such as during the 19t century slavery) within American history. The Graphic Arts Building as the last modern headquarters built by the Christian Publishing Association Dayton's Publishing District. Publishing Association had been publishing and printing in various Dayton buildings since the mid-1gth century, which the building was custom designed. Like the other nearby buildings, the Graphic Arts Building housed Sixth St. and Main St. was demolished at the turn of the century for Dayton's downtown railway improvements. The predecessor building at 204 S.
Ludlow Street building is listed in the National Register as part of the consolidate the functional industry requirements, and to contain in a single building the capacity to produce, building was also a means to empower the philosophical needs of its evangelical "Christian Church (Connexion)" creed. More so, the social history supported by the Christian Publishing Association is structurally manifested in its organizational history. Not only was the new headquarters to reaffirm its own legacy as a "Christian" printing house, but it also sought to reform the nature of its religious creed. It The Christian Publishing Association (in their new headquarters) was the evolutionary culmination and relocating and consolidating its operations from several regional locations.
The Graphic Arts Building remains as an example of a turn of the century freestanding publishing house on city blocks historically referred to as Other familiar publishing and printing firm names such as Reynolds & Reynolds, Mead Corporation, The Otterbein Press, and The Dayton Press, and the United Brethren Publishing House, are all bound within designed with two enclosed stairways and a passenger and freight elevator. The Graphic Arts Building is an The Graphic Arts Building remains as an example of a structure designed to comprehensively all of the documentary needs required by any group or organization under a broadly defined "Christian NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 5 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio airplane, owned a publishing company that printed the first published poetry book, Oak and Ivy, as well as the Dayton as a major national center for the publishing industry was reinforced with the McCall Company concentrating their entire operations in Dayton. In 1952 more than three million magazines were printed at the McCall Corporation plant in West and McCall's Magazine for women. In 1962, more than a billion magazines, including Newsweek, Readers Brethren Publishing House was established at Fourth and Main Streets, home to writers, editors, and artists nation at that time.
The United Brethren Church bought a lot in 1853 on the northeast corner of Fourth and Main Streets, tore down a tavern, and erected a building, which was used until 1904, when a new building was published the Religious Telescope and other periodicals and books. Lawrence Dunbar. Based upon Dayton industry and manufacturing statistics summarized in Charlotte Reeve Conover's The first noted religious printing in Dayton originates from the United Brethren Publishing House 'The Tattler' community newspaper of another native son, the world renowned African American poet, Paul Dayton's printing legacy. Even the Wright Brothers, before their ventures in bicycles and invention of the Dayton and Montgomery County: Resources and People, Vol. II, published in 1932, the companies and various Digest, and U.S. News and World Report, were printed and bound at McCall's West Dayton plant.
established in Circleville, Ohio in 1834 and moving its operation to Dayton in 1853. In 1896, the United industries associated with printing and publishing ranked in the top three of overall number of companies related fields (employee numbers not provided for 1918). In both years, the Christian Publishing Association is Dayton. By 1955, 52 national publications were printed there, including Redbook, Bluebook, Saturday Review, overall importance of the printing and publishing industry in Dayton. Religious periodicals and books published religious printed materials reflects, in part, the continuing American evangelicalism promoted in the late 19th reach through mass media with the Dayton religious press a major producer. producing religious literature.
This organization was founded by Bishop Milton Wright, father of the famed phases, with three structures being combined, and with completion of all phases in 1924 (NR 1993). The UCB listed as one of the principal companiesrepresenting their respective industry in Dayton. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 6 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio created a unique niche for itself in the publication of sacred music for churches and Sunday schools. The Christian Publishing Association was unique in that it published the 'Herald of Gospel Liberty, the current and relevant social and theological issues facing the pioneers of this country. history, but it is simply astounding.
Its connections join figures such Elias Smith, and Horace Mann; institutions Association's flagship publication the 'Herald of Gospel Liberty' held the organization's true power. religious community development. In 1918, nearly 190 years after the first issue, the historian Elizabeth C. Nordbeck credited the Herald of Gospel Liberty as providing "the glue for a coherent Christian identity." It "is independent frontier churches, she wrote. The Herald of Gospel Liberty played a formative role in the Christian Church that became part of the United Churches of Christ denomination. In 1931, this group united with the Congregational Churches and in 1957 became a part of the United Church of Christ. A Brief History of Some of Dayton's Modern Printing Legacy Firms theological influences which brought about many secular and religious printing establishments founded in Dayton or nearby.
We have attempted to intersperse historical information about the city and its people to is noteworthy to see the evolution of this new information medium, the art and science of printing who were scattered in the American frontier, and who had been divided by denominational ideology, and by the barriers of time and space. The paper was able to articulate and disperse its journalistic thought about The historic role that this newspaper played involves a rather complex purview of religious and social such as Antioch and the Franklinton Institute; causes such as abolition, also religious publication and recording It appears that the Christian Church grew nationally during the 19 century, moving southward and their own Christian publications which were created to serve local needs.
Sometimes these regional In this narrative statement of significance are some brief historical stories and facts, not presented in pure chronological sequence, but in a way which will show the extremely complex historical connections and show an evolutionary process of commerce and religious development. Many of the firms we will discuss were The Lorenz Publishing Company began business in Dayton in 1890 and was incorporated in 1901; it westward into newly settled areas of the nation. Therefore, the Church's publishing organization which as its center, the Herald of Gospel Liberty newspaper became a mouthpiece that transcended local Christian NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number & Page Z Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio and publishing, evolve coincident with the region's development as a place. Dayton led the nation in this regard. Following is how this trend started in the area. small hand press. The first publication was printed September 18,1808, and the last printing was issued on December 4, 1809. mentioned a number of German papers as follows: Stimme Des Volks, established by a Mr. Stierlin, was published about two years; Dayton Demokrat, established in 1856 by Haisch & Engler, lasted not quite a year; DaytonWochenblat, founded in 1859 by Herman Rauh, was published about five years; Daily Evening well as the successor of the Pioneer. established in 1856 by F. W.
Anderton & Co., an afternoon paper, independent in politics, which ran up to a Dayton Daily Sun, Dayton Commercial, Dayton Advertiser, all of which were evening issues, price one penny. Weekly Index, which ran a year." In 1846, Daniel Mead founded the Mead Corporation in Dayton, Ohio.The firm originally manufactured States, with paper mills in Kingsport, Tennessee, Brunswick, Georgia, and Escanaba, Michigan, as well as several plants in Ohio. The Mead Corporation is currently known as MeadWestvaco. The Reynolds and Reynolds Company is a private company headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. Founded in 1866 as a business forms printing company, the firm started serving automotive dealers in 1927. In 1866, Company in 1889. A new factory was built in Dayton on the West Side in 1898.
Subsequently in 1920, Reynolds created the first standardized accounting forms and a paper-based accounting system for Chevrolet provider to the automobile retailer market. Daniel Mead's death in 1891, the Mead Corporation was one of the largest paperproducers in the United The first paper to be printed in Dayton was known as The Repertory, which was printed on a single Abendblatt, established by Peitz & Egry in 1850, was the first German daily printed in Dayton, it only lasted a second, the latter of whom had charge of its columns about a year. Other papers of a later date were the established the Dayton Chronicle, which existed less than a year. In 1868, he began to publish the Dayton paper, but the company dramatically expanded its product line during the twentieth century. By the time of the company began when Gardner & Reynolds was founded in Dayton, Ohio, by Lucius D.
Reynolds, and his brother-in-law, James R. Gardner. Their small manufacturing company was one of the first to print standardized business forms. The firm became Reynolds & Reynolds in 1866 when Gardner sold out to Ira Reynolds, Lucius Reynolds's father. Eventually, the firm was incorporated as The Reynolds and Reynolds Throughout the 19t century many different papers were published in a variety of interests, which have few weeks; and Dayton Monier, established in 1860, by Richard Baur, which ran about two years. The first of Of the English papers that have been published for a time, there were, the Dayton City Item, sheet consisting of foolscap paper, eight by twelve inches.William McClure and George Smith printed it on a NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number & Page 8 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio McCall Pattern Company started in 1870 in New York City. James McCall, an immigrant from Scotland was a tailor with a small shop who kept up with European fashion trends and worked as a U S Agent for the continued to flourish. 1923. On July 15, 1929 a major industry consolidation event occurred. McCall's, then the third largest in size The W. P. Lewis Paper Mill, manufacturers of book, news and tinted paper, was on the northeast corner of Monument Avenue and Foundry Street. It was built in 1874 and razed in 1924. The Standard Register Co. was founded in Dayton, Ohio upon an invention dreamt up by Theodore drawback was that the layers of carbon and forms often slipped, becoming misaligned.
register" featured a wooden cylinder with sprocket wheels at either end. The pins corresponded to holes organizational formats, thereby vastly increasing their utility. Convinced that the idea was feasible, John in 1912 with Thomas Schirmer as president and John Sherman as a director. They founded the business in the west coast to set up sales operations there. funds. of woman's magazines, decided to acquire control of Consolidated Magazines Corp., publishers of the fiction devised in 1883 by James C. Shoup. Shoup's machine featured two separate rolls of paper--one printed with significant advance over the alternative--writing out copies in longhand-the autographic register's primary attract enough start-up capital to begin production. In a last-ditch effort to get his idea off the ground, he After initially rejecting the idea, Sherman asked Schirmer to build a prototype.
Together they refined the of Fashion" and reached a circulation of more than 75,000. When James McCall died in 1884, his company McCall's started printing directly onto their patterns in 1919 and in the 1920s introduced full color monthlies Red Book (circulation, 791,219) and Blue Book (165,903). McCall's later operated under the name lines, the other blank--interlayered with carbon paper. When a user wrote on the top document, for example a NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 9 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio Loren Murphy Berry (July 24, 1888 - February 10, 1980) was born in Wabash, Indiana, the son of operation that, as L.
M.Berry and Company, developed into a coast-to-coast enterprise and became one of the directories in the United States. Loren Berry became known as "Mr. Yellow Pages." His motto was "It CAN be done!" He expanded his operations to Europe, where the product is called the Golden Pages. The company to BellSouth Corp. in 1986. school teacher, bought the then financially troubled Dayton Evening News for $26,000 - most of which he built at Fourth and Ludlow Streets. Meanwhile, Cox entered the political arena and served two terms in Congress. He was elected governor of Ohio three times. In 1920, the Democratic Party nominated him for president of the United States, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt as his running mate. He lost that election and returned his attention to the media business.
He established the Miami (OH) Valley's first radio station, WHIO, in 1934, just as the medium began to television station in 1948. That same year, he launched the south's first FM radio station, WSB-FM. Locally, Governor Cox bought out his two local competitors, the Herald and the Journal. Both papers were merged into support two newspapers, and the Company combined the morning and afternoon editions in September 1986. newspaper on September 26, 1988. manufacture of all stamped envelopes and wrappers in the United States at that time. Charles D.and Elizabeth (Murphy) Berry.
He was a pioneer in the Yellow Pages business telephone directory wife Lucille moved to Dayton, Ohio, and, on a shoestring budget, began The Ohio Guide Company, printing foremost telephone directory publishers in the United States, handling one out of every four telephone and publishing industry in Dayton grew to have a national, then world-wide scope. industry. While selling advertising for timetables that served interurban railroads, Berry was asked by the timetables. He recognized the opportunities for Yellow Pages and soon concentrated on a telephone directory sold advertising space and handled production for many of the local Yellow Pages. It was sold borrowed. The first issue of the Dayton Daily News was published on August 22, 1898. By 1910, the Dayton Daily News had outgrown its cramped quarters on East Second Street and a new, white-pillared structure was gain popularity.
And before the explosion of television, Cox started WSB-TV in Atlanta, the south's first The Aetna Paper Company established in 1893 in Dayton produced writing paper and government envelope paper, the latter being supplied to the Mercantile Company in Dayton, which had the contract for the These are just a few of the Dayton printing and publishing related names. As one can see the printing NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Section number 8 Page 10 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio CONTINUATION SHEET HEP ALD OF GOSPEL LIBERTY of sin anil deuth. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 11 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio of Harry I. Schenck & Harry J. Williams the body of work of the prominent Dayton architectural firm of Schenck & Williams. Harry I. Schenck and Harry Building is an example of the firm's commercial/industrial work, one of few examples documented.
The building's brick facing and stone ornamentation reflects the simpler architectural expressions of the 1920s as concrete framing used in this building is representative of early 20 century building technology to produce a commercial-industrial building reflects the firm's engineering and design work associated with this building industrialists and the affluent community leaders to design major religious edifices and commercial - industrial complexes, as well as mansions, homes and subdivisions in the surrounding communities. Harry Irvin Schenck was born in Dayton, OH on November 13, 1880. He graduated from Dayton's Steele High School in 1899 and went on to Cornell University, where he majored in Architecture, graduating firm of Frank Andrews, to form the prestigious firm to be known as Schenck & Williams, Architects. He died on From their beginnings, the architectural firm of Harry I.
Schenck and Harry J. Williams is thoroughly do including the mansion of Orville Wright in nearby Oakwood, a suburb of Dayton, known as Hawthorn Hill. type. retirement. fireproof structure and support industrial uses.This is a significant remaining example of the small-scale The Graphic Arts Building also qualifies for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C; as a significant example of early 20 century commercial and industrial architecture, representing J. Williams were nationally renowned architects and sought for their high quality designs. The Graphic Arts Schenck and Williams were the recognized leaders in Dayton's architecture community. Their award Architect. In 1905, he partnered with Harry J.
Williams, a Cornell classmate, who was also an intern with the firm gained prominence through design excellence, and are known to have designed many major buildings in intertwined with Dayton's historic 'movers and shakers'. For example they designed many homes of the well to They were also Charter members of The Engineering Society of Dayton, during the period in which Dayton compared with the earlier years of the 20t century and is in keeping with the building's utilitarian function. The winning firm received the largest number of architectural commissions in the history of Dayton's building legacy. Their design excellence is commemorated by their use of new and creative building materials, with a B.A. in Architecture in 1903. He returned to Dayton in 1905 to intern for 18 months with Frank Andrews, February 3,1956 in Dayton, and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio. Harry J.
Williams, a native of Ithaca, NY, was born on November 4, 1880. He graduated from the Dayton, as well as nationally. He died on August 27, 1957 in Palm Springs, CA where he lived after NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 12 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio Their body of work includes the following buildings (among others) in Dayton, Ohio: Ohio Bell Telephone Building, 1931 Dayton Power & Light Building, (National Register of Historic Places), 1926 The third site for the Dayton YMCA Building, (National Register of Historic Places), 1929 The Mutual Home and Savings Association Building, (National Register of Historic Places) 1917 The Rike - Kumler Building, 1912 Third National Bank Building, 1926 The Lindsey Building, 1915 Good Samaritan Hospital, 1932 Dayton Frigidaire Plant, 1921 Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1926; Grace Methodist Church, 1921; First Baptist Church, 1914, Second Church of Christ Science, 1924 Delco Products Plant, Dayton, 1909 Several National Cash Register Factory Buildings Several Wright - Patterson Air Force Base Buildings Many Homes in Oakwood and Dayton, OH The Hulman Building, (National Register of Historic Places) a.k.a.
The Mutual Home Building, 1931 The Winters Bank Building, 1921 Hawthorne Hill, the mansion of Orville Wright of aviation fame, (National Register of Historic Places), 1914 The Pryor Building (demolished 1995), 1917 Building 26, NCR Campus for U.S. Government Special Project during World War II (demolished 2008), 1937 the Miami Valley region. Many of the downtown buildings had storefronts which housed entrepreneurs specialty retail stores, restaurants, bars, hotels, tobacco shops, and pharmacies. roughly during the same time period in the nearby Dayton Terra Cotta Historic District. Many were filled with These buildings were located at the edge of the central business district, and near the city's railroad locations for light manufacturing and distribution as well. Dayton had already been considered an ideal goods in the 19 century.
Like other nearby buildings, The Graphic Arts Building played a major role in the The Dayton Engineer's Club Building, (National Register of Historic Places) 1918 The Graphics Arts Building is in close proximity, but separated by vacant lots, to buildings constructed small businesses that provided support services for larger businesses, including local corporations located in stations, livestock yards, and trolley car lines. These buildings and nearby shops and factories were desired NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 8 Page 13 Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio 1. Ludlow Building, 136 S. Ludlow St., built 1917 2. Wurlitzer Building, 122-126 S. Ludlow St., built 1926 3. Thomas Building, 32-38 W. Fifth Street, built 1916 4.
Reed-Steffan Building, 12-18 W. Fifth Street., built 1921 5. Bollinger Building, 208 S. Ludlow Street, built 1909 advances in printing and publishing technology at the time. The modern Graphic Arts Building, at 221 S. the Christian Publishing Association's and its printing operations. It provided highly systematic and functional affiliates. It also served as a jobber for other printing projects, many of which were secular in nature. The work of the Christian Publishing Association was significant to both Dayton's and American history. impact of the Christian Publishing Association in Dayton's local and America's national histories. Conclusion Specifically, the Dayton Terra Cotta Historic District buildings are as follows: collection of early twentieth century Dayton commercial buildings that can be viewed as a group.
Facades of four of the buildings are faced with decorative Beaux Arts Classicism style terra cotta. The former Christian The Graphic Arts Building's functionally efficient and modern Commercial Style complemented the Ludlow Street clearly fulfilled its design intent; to accommodate the expansion of the headquarters offices for are living documentary evidence; and which are lasting testimonies to the evolving role and faith shaping 6. Christian Publishing Association Building, old headquarters, 204 S. Ludlow Street, built 1905 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section number 9 Page 1 Montgomery County, Ohio Austin, Charles M. The Charles M. Austin Collection of Dayton African-American History.
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Elias Smith: Reformer, Journalist, Doctor; Horace Mann: Christian Statesman Association, 1921. Orlando W. Whitelock. Dayton, OH: The Christian Publishing Association, 1921. Citizen's Historical Association. Biography of Harry J. Williams, Architect: Third National Bank Building, Dayton, OH. Indianapolis, IN: No. 2 D33 E57 F128, LCD/BDK, January 31, 1942 Bibliography http://www.ucc.org/ucnews/octnov2008/200-years-and-counting-the.html Graphic Arts Building Burnett,John Franklin.Rev.James O'Kelly:A Champion of Religious Liberty.Booklet No.2;Foreword by Burnett, John Franklin. Early Women of the Christian Church: Heroines All. Booklet No. 6; Foreword by and Educator. Booklet No. 5; Foreword by Orlando W. Whitelock. Dayton, OH: The Christian Publishing NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev.
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4th Floor Dayton, Ohio 48202 Date Taken: July, 2008 & November 2008 Description: Main Facade (East Elevation) of Building front on Ludlow St; Showing main entry with arched limestone, limestone band above intact Storefront, (and recent framed plaster closure which conceals intact Description: View of North Elevation (side of building) and Main Facade East elevation. (Side) Elevation. Description: View of South Elevation (side of building on Court St.) and West Photo 1: OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg_001 Description: Bituminous roofing & brick penthouses. Description: View of Roof (flat) to East with Flagpole. Description: Typical view of 2^d Floor Interior to east. Description: Exposed Prism Glass Storefront). (Rear) elevation. Photographer: David A.
Pigford Photo 2: Description: View of West Elevation(rear of building from alley) and North OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg_001 NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Graphic Arts Building Montgomery County, Ohio Photo 10: OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg_010 Description: Detail view of stair. Description: Antique Mailbox. Description: Storefront enclosure, prism glass & limestone band. Description: retrofit inscription above stone arch. Description: First floor interior to west (no partitions or stair). Description: Typical view 3rd floor interior to east Description:limestone arches &beaded sub-arch @ Ludlow St.Entrance. Section number Additional Documentation Page Photographs - Not- Plastered.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN - Not to Scale OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg NORTH SHIPPING Cement Floor LOOM 14 - 11° 54 - 10" DOOK STORE Cement El Unfineshed Floor Wood Dase. SECOND FLOOR PLAN - Not to Scale OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg NORTH sim./typ floor 3 14 - 11* 15' - 3L cemsent-rloor Wood ROOM THIRD FLOOR PLAN - Not to Scale NORTH OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg COMPOSING 15° - 3VE Wood d Glass - 54 - 10* 14 -11" 20 x 10*GF 18- 72 4 thru 5 - no = No Floor Finis = No Plaster FOURTH FLOOR PLAN - Not to Scale NORTH OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg (sim./ typ.
@ floors no partitions) =Cement Floor 15' - 35 4 thru 5 4 & 5 - no partitions) TRUSTEES ROOM @flat roof FIFTH FLOOR PLAN - Not to Scale above NORTH OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg (sim./ typ.@ floors 15 - 1° 54 - 10 15: 0 CORRIDOR Cemlent Floor 14 - 11" (unfinished concrete - BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN - Not to Scale Basement NORTH OH_MontgomeryCounty_GraphicArtsBldg no partitions) STORAGE VAULT Cem. Fl.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: N PDIL: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the DATE TELEPHONE MULTIPLE RETURN 10/31/09 REJECT DISCIPLINE 11/15/09 10/02/09 REVIEWER RECOM./CRITERIA The National Register EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET OTHER: Entered in VACCEPT DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REASONS FOR REVIEW: Historic Places DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N REQUEST: N nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS.
SAMPLE: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: OH_ Montgomery County- GraphicArtsBldg_ 002 OH_ MontgomeryCounty_ Graphic Arts Bldg- 003 OH_ Montgomery County_ Graphc Arts Bldg- 004 OH_ Montgomery County_ Graphic Arts Bldg - O05 OH_ Montgomery County_ Graphi ArtsBldg - 007 OH_MontgomeryCounty-Graphic ArtsBldg_008 OH_ Montgomery County-Graphie ArtsBldg_ 009 OH_ Montgomery Connty_ GraphicArtsBldg- 010 OH_ Montgomery County_GraphicArtsBldg-011 OH_ Montg omery County_ Graphic Arts Bldg- 0/2 BUILDING GRAPHIC ARTS OH_ Montgomery Connty_ Grapbie ArtsBildy_013 OH_ Montgomery County_GraphieArtsBldg_014 OH_MontgomeryCounty_ Graphic ArtsBldg - 015 OH_ Montgomery County_ Graphic ArtsBldg - 0 16 OH_Montgomery County_ GraphicArtsBldg-017 USGS US. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GRAPHIC ARTS 1996 U.S.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DAYTON NORTH QUADRANGLE DAYTON NORTH, OH BUILDING 7.5-MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC 216 740464 SCALE 1:24 000 USGS OCT 02 2009 NAT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES September 24, 2009 Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 "T" (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: NEW NOMINATION If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Veima Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 COUNTY Montgomery HISTORY Enclosures www.ohiohistory.org Summit Sincerely, National Register Main-Exchange Historic District Franco Ruffini notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.
OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY RECEIVED 2280 Graphic Arts Building Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations for Ohio.All appropriate National Park Service 2280 OHIO
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